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Tuesday 20 May 2025

The weather is fine, and the pool project is advancing rapidly.  We are still planning on a reopening for the first week of June. 

As a reminder, the key elements of the project:

  • Our old pool needed to be replaced for a number of reasons
    • Built in the 1960s
    • Filtration system processing water at around ¼ of current norms leading to the need for the fence (to limit the amount of debris entering the pool).  Filtration system so old that there was a major risk of breakdown in mid-season
    • Liner heavily cracked, with major risk that it could suffer an irreparable break at any time
    • Technical building in very poor state
  • The major elements of the current project
    • Complete replacement of all filtration aspects
      • New, larger technical building
      • Update to current norms, with more powerful skimmer and injectors and 4 x filtration capacity
    • Repair of the concrete pool structure (in which major cracks were discovered when the liner was removed)
    • Use of “gel coat” finish (versus plastic liner) for improved “look and feel” and easy maintenance
    • New “stepped” entry to make it easier to get in and out
    • Surrounds
      • Removal of the interior fence
      • New brushed concrete finish around the pool

All is on track for an early June reopening as per our last report.  This means that we still expect to come in 2 weeks behind the original schedule and 3% over initial budget (mainly for repairs to cracked concrete).

A few photos from April

Early May update

This week we can see that the metal reinforcement has been put in prior to the pouring of concrete: this is true across the whole site.

  • The first picture shows the 5 new installations as part of the water treatment system
  • The kids’ pool is also ready for its concrete surround
  • Our third photo shows the new steps and also that the old painted surface is being sanded down in preparation for the new “gelcoat” surface

Progress

The Management Committee